About Renee
Dr. Renee Nelson is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Arizona with 20 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing ADHD, grief, trauma, and major life changes.
She also provides support around LGBT concerns and health-related stress. Her sessions are straightforward and collaborative. She listens first, then helps people set realistic goals and small steps they can try between meetings.
Practical tools and mindfulness techniques are mixed with reflective conversation to help manage emotions and daily challenges.
Background and approach
Dr. Nelson uses a few proven methods to guide work in session. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build new routines.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and actions people can take even when feelings are difficult. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used for processing traumatic memories when appropriate. She brings experience supporting people with chronic illness, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care concerns, and aging-related issues.
Communication difficulties, eating and body-related worries, and the emotional impact of divorce or major loss are also areas she addresses. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Dr. Nelson frames therapy as a paced partnership where clients pick what fits their life and needs.
How evidence-based approaches meet online care
ACT, or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, helps people identify what they value and take small steps toward those goals even when emotions are hard. It is useful for coping with life changes, chronic stress, and motivation challenges.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It offers concrete exercises to change unhelpful thinking patterns and build routines that support attention, mood, and daily functioning.
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a method for processing painful memories and trauma. When it is used, sessions aim to reduce the intensity of distressing memories so they interfere less with current life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then tailor methods accordingly. This is a collaborative process where adjustments are normal as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for quicker check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, ask brief questions, or fit therapy into a busy day without scheduling a full video visit.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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